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Full moon, Assentoft, Denmark

I can't get enough full moon pictures really, it's always exciting being out when the moon light is so strong that the Scandinavian summer night almost become as light as day.

I had planned this shot for some time and when I saw the weather forecast for the night, I couldn't wait. Clear weather with no wind, optimal conditions for what I had in mind. On this beautiful evening around midnight, I saw many bats hunting over the lake but also another night hunter came very close to me; a Tawny Owl was flying very low just over my head - an outstanding experience. I was out all night and suddenly the mist was hanging low over the meadow making it difficult to photograph anything, because it made my lenses and filters condensate and difficult to obtain sharp images as a result.

What you can't see on this idyllic image, is all the mosquitoes and other insects making me almost lose my mind! - but I got the shot anyways!

7 comments:

That's a really nice capture, Jesper - the moon looks more like the sun, and love the lighting on the grass in the foreground (almost as though there's a slight lick of flash on them to illuminate the camera-side of the blades).